| September 25, 1718 |
John Stuart, who will become Indian Agent for the British Government, born, Inverness, Scotland
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| September 25, 1777 |
Major General Robert Howe is replaced by Major General Benjamin Lincoln as commander of the Southern Department
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Southern Department of the Continental Army |
| September 25, 1878 |
The National Weather Service opens an office at the Kimball Opera House in Atlanta. At the time, the building served as the state capital
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National Weather Service
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| September 25, 1919 |
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a mild stroke. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| September 25, 1946 |
Chief Justice of the state supreme court Robert Benham is born in Cartersville
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| September 25, 1962 |
A pre-dawn fire at St. Matthew's Baptist Church destroys the building. It is the fifth black church to burn in the past month
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| September 25, 1977 |
71-year-old Jean Dimenstien is found strangled and assaulted in a sexual manner in her Wynnton (an area of Columbus, Georgia) home. Similar to a murder that had occured 10 days earlier, the elderly women of Columbus had become a target for a serial killer.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
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Columbus, Georgia |
| September 25, 1982 |
Lisa Ann Millican, part of a girls group from the Ethel Harpst Home in Cedartown, Georgia, disappeared while on a trip to the Riverbend Mall in Rome. Her body would be recovered a few days later in Little River Canyon, Fort Payne, Alabama
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 25, 1988 |
The Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center officially opens at Callaway Gardens. |
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Callaway Gardens |
| September 25, 2001 |
Unsolved Mysteries airs James Sullivan's picture during a show on the murder of his wife, Lita. |
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James Sullivan and the murder of Lita Sullivan |
| September 25, 2009 |
Georgian Bank of Atlanta closes. Its assets are purchased by First Citizens Bank and Trust Company |
